Tia Ray

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Tia Ray (simplified Chinese: 袁娅维; traditional Chinese: 袁婭維; pinyin: Yuán Yàwéi; born 12 December 1984) is a Chinese singer-songwriter from Hunan, China. She rose to fame in 2012 as a contestant in The Voice of China, finishing as one of the final contenders. Ray has since released four commercially successful albums, all of which she co-wrote and co-produced. Prior to breaking into the mainstream, she has spent close to a decade performing in smaller venues, music festivals, and collaborating with musicians in Beijing, where she pursued her studies of performing arts. In 2010, she formed her jazz band The Knutz with Chinese and African-American musicians, with whom she wrote, recorded and performed mainly R&B and neo soul music. Ray had her international breakthrough in 2018 with the hit Be Apart, which generated 1.8 billion streams and was the seventh best-selling single in the world that year. She has since collaborated with various artists from the United States, including Kehlani, Jason...

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